Gay Marriage: 100% in favor of, overturn state laws banning it at the federal level as discriminatory.

War on Drugs: Legalize all drugs, abolish the DEA

Prostitution: Legalize

Stem Cell Research: Expand

Affirmative Action: For but based on class instead of race

Gun Control: kind of torn, I think that there's a strong left-wing case to be made in favor of allowing people to bear arms. I can't understand liberals wanting to give racist cops a monopoly on gun ownership in big citites. At the same time if you could implement some kind of background check to prevent mass shootings i'd be all for it. I really think that overlaps with other issues also though like mental health.

Gambling: Support legalizing but I disagree with how it's done. (see below)

Immigration: The US is a nation of immigrants and I know that my ancestors were discriminated against by the WASPs when they first came here and I feel that people are hypocritical to oppose immigration. Yes it may depress wages somewhat but they're are other ways of stimulating them again. (see under economics)

Civil Liberties: Abolish the Patriot Act, Espionage Act, end NSA spying and police militarization, ban the use of domestic drones by police departments.

Other stuff: I guess i'm more socially libertarian then Socially Liberal since i've always had a problem with progressive paternalism. I think that sin taxes are fundamentally regressive and it annoys me how things like cigarette taxes and gambling are always tied to funding programs. It just seems like a bullsh**t way to avoid taxing the rich. I also think that bars should be able to allow smoking if they're adult only venues. Also the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen.

Economics:

Pro-Union, support single payer health care, free universal college education, guaranteed minimum income as a means of offsetting outsourcing. If we had guaranteed income it would be a boon to the economy as more people could leave their sh**tty jobs and either start businesses or pursue some creative venture. It would also be stimulus for those at the bottom. I also think that giving those at the bottom money directly is less demeaning to the poor then forcing them to be dependent on busy body social workers. Also institute a stock transaction tax and reinstate glass-stegal.

Foreign Policy:

Israel/Palestine: I believe that ethnic based states are fundamentally racist and if their ever could have been a two state solution it's been ruined by the nutty settlers moving onto what should have been Palestinian land. There should be one multiethnic secular state and I say this as a partial Jew myself.

Iran: I think we should lift the sanctions and move towards better relations with Iran and away from Saudi Arabia.

Afghanistan: Pull out already!

Draft: 100000% opposed

The US should remained engaged in the world and I think that under extreme circumstances intervention can be justified to prevent genocide but in general we should reorient our foreign policy towards one based on human rights and less in serving corporate interests.

Overall: Basically a Libertarian Socialist as my name would imply or more accurately an (LSD) Libertarian Social Democrat. I also think that my politics are in some ways close to Christopher Hitchens before 9/11.

Hate to break it to ya, but your not a Libertarian Socialist. -A Libertarian Socialist

How, because i'm not an anarchist?

It's because you don't call for the means of production to be collectivized.

Good point, I guess that i'd be on the right-wing of any radical leftist movement just because i'm not a market abolitionist even though by the standards of American politics i'm basically a Commie.

Gay Marriage: 100% in favor of, overturn state laws banning it at the federal level as discriminatory.

War on Drugs: Legalize all drugs, abolish the DEA

Prostitution: Legalize

Stem Cell Research: Expand

Affirmative Action: For but based on class instead of race

Gun Control: kind of torn, I think that there's a strong left-wing case to be made in favor of allowing people to bear arms. I can't understand liberals wanting to give racist cops a monopoly on gun ownership in big citites. At the same time if you could implement some kind of background check to prevent mass shootings i'd be all for it. I really think that overlaps with other issues also though like mental health.

Gambling: Support legalizing but I disagree with how it's done. (see below)

Immigration: The US is a nation of immigrants and I know that my ancestors were discriminated against by the WASPs when they first came here and I feel that people are hypocritical to oppose immigration. Yes it may depress wages somewhat but they're are other ways of stimulating them again. (see under economics)

Civil Liberties: Abolish the Patriot Act, Espionage Act, end NSA spying and police militarization, ban the use of domestic drones by police departments.

Other stuff: I guess i'm more socially libertarian then Socially Liberal since i've always had a problem with progressive paternalism. I think that sin taxes are fundamentally regressive and it annoys me how things like cigarette taxes and gambling are always tied to funding programs. It just seems like a bullsh**t way to avoid taxing the rich. I also think that bars should be able to allow smoking if they're adult only venues. Also the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen.

Economics:

Pro-Union, support single payer health care, free universal college education, guaranteed minimum income as a means of offsetting outsourcing. If we had guaranteed income it would be a boon to the economy as more people could leave their sh**tty jobs and either start businesses or pursue some creative venture. It would also be stimulus for those at the bottom. I also think that giving those at the bottom money directly is less demeaning to the poor then forcing them to be dependent on busy body social workers. Also institute a stock transaction tax and reinstate glass-stegal.

Foreign Policy:

Israel/Palestine: I believe that ethnic based states are fundamentally racist and if their ever could have been a two state solution it's been ruined by the nutty settlers moving onto what should have been Palestinian land. There should be one multiethnic secular state and I say this as a partial Jew myself.

Iran: I think we should lift the sanctions and move towards better relations with Iran and away from Saudi Arabia.

Afghanistan: Pull out already!

Draft: 100000% opposed

The US should remained engaged in the world and I think that under extreme circumstances intervention can be justified to prevent genocide but in general we should reorient our foreign policy towards one based on human rights and less in serving corporate interests.

Overall: Basically a Libertarian Socialist as my name would imply or more accurately an (LSD) Libertarian Social Democrat. I also think that my politics are in some ways close to Christopher Hitchens before 9/11.

Hate to break it to ya, but your not a Libertarian Socialist. -A Libertarian Socialist

How, because i'm not an anarchist?

It's because you don't call for the means of production to be collectivized.

Good point, I guess that i'd be on the right-wing of any radical leftist movement just because i'm not a market abolitionist even though by the standards of American politics i'm basically a Commie.

Gay Marriage: 100% in favor of, overturn state laws banning it at the federal level as discriminatory.

War on Drugs: Legalize all drugs, abolish the DEA

Prostitution: Legalize

Stem Cell Research: Expand

Affirmative Action: For but based on class instead of race

Gun Control: kind of torn, I think that there's a strong left-wing case to be made in favor of allowing people to bear arms. I can't understand liberals wanting to give racist cops a monopoly on gun ownership in big citites. At the same time if you could implement some kind of background check to prevent mass shootings i'd be all for it. I really think that overlaps with other issues also though like mental health.

Gambling: Support legalizing but I disagree with how it's done. (see below)

Immigration: The US is a nation of immigrants and I know that my ancestors were discriminated against by the WASPs when they first came here and I feel that people are hypocritical to oppose immigration. Yes it may depress wages somewhat but they're are other ways of stimulating them again. (see under economics)

Civil Liberties: Abolish the Patriot Act, Espionage Act, end NSA spying and police militarization, ban the use of domestic drones by police departments.

Other stuff: I guess i'm more socially libertarian then Socially Liberal since i've always had a problem with progressive paternalism. I think that sin taxes are fundamentally regressive and it annoys me how things like cigarette taxes and gambling are always tied to funding programs. It just seems like a bullsh**t way to avoid taxing the rich. I also think that bars should be able to allow smoking if they're adult only venues. Also the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen.

Economics:

Pro-Union, support single payer health care, free universal college education, guaranteed minimum income as a means of offsetting outsourcing. If we had guaranteed income it would be a boon to the economy as more people could leave their sh**tty jobs and either start businesses or pursue some creative venture. It would also be stimulus for those at the bottom. I also think that giving those at the bottom money directly is less demeaning to the poor then forcing them to be dependent on busy body social workers. Also institute a stock transaction tax and reinstate glass-stegal.

Foreign Policy:

Israel/Palestine: I believe that ethnic based states are fundamentally racist and if their ever could have been a two state solution it's been ruined by the nutty settlers moving onto what should have been Palestinian land. There should be one multiethnic secular state and I say this as a partial Jew myself.

Iran: I think we should lift the sanctions and move towards better relations with Iran and away from Saudi Arabia.

Afghanistan: Pull out already!

Draft: 100000% opposed

The US should remained engaged in the world and I think that under extreme circumstances intervention can be justified to prevent genocide but in general we should reorient our foreign policy towards one based on human rights and less in serving corporate interests.

Overall: Basically a Libertarian Socialist as my name would imply or more accurately an (LSD) Libertarian Social Democrat. I also think that my politics are in some ways close to Christopher Hitchens before 9/11.

Hate to break it to ya, but your not a Libertarian Socialist. -A Libertarian Socialist

How, because i'm not an anarchist?

It's because you don't call for the means of production to be collectivized.

Good point, I guess that i'd be on the right-wing of any radical leftist movement just because i'm not a market abolitionist even though by the standards of American politics i'm basically a Commie.

Gay Marriage: 100% in favor of, overturn state laws banning it at the federal level as discriminatory.

War on Drugs: Legalize all drugs, abolish the DEA

Prostitution: Legalize

Stem Cell Research: Expand

Affirmative Action: For but based on class instead of race

Gun Control: kind of torn, I think that there's a strong left-wing case to be made in favor of allowing people to bear arms. I can't understand liberals wanting to give racist cops a monopoly on gun ownership in big citites. At the same time if you could implement some kind of background check to prevent mass shootings i'd be all for it. I really think that overlaps with other issues also though like mental health.

Gambling: Support legalizing but I disagree with how it's done. (see below)

Immigration: The US is a nation of immigrants and I know that my ancestors were discriminated against by the WASPs when they first came here and I feel that people are hypocritical to oppose immigration. Yes it may depress wages somewhat but they're are other ways of stimulating them again. (see under economics)

Civil Liberties: Abolish the Patriot Act, Espionage Act, end NSA spying and police militarization, ban the use of domestic drones by police departments.

Other stuff: I guess i'm more socially libertarian then Socially Liberal since i've always had a problem with progressive paternalism. I think that sin taxes are fundamentally regressive and it annoys me how things like cigarette taxes and gambling are always tied to funding programs. It just seems like a bullsh**t way to avoid taxing the rich. I also think that bars should be able to allow smoking if they're adult only venues. Also the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen.

Economics:

Pro-Union, support single payer health care, free universal college education, guaranteed minimum income as a means of offsetting outsourcing. If we had guaranteed income it would be a boon to the economy as more people could leave their sh**tty jobs and either start businesses or pursue some creative venture. It would also be stimulus for those at the bottom. I also think that giving those at the bottom money directly is less demeaning to the poor then forcing them to be dependent on busy body social workers. Also institute a stock transaction tax and reinstate glass-stegal.

Foreign Policy:

Israel/Palestine: I believe that ethnic based states are fundamentally racist and if their ever could have been a two state solution it's been ruined by the nutty settlers moving onto what should have been Palestinian land. There should be one multiethnic secular state and I say this as a partial Jew myself.

Iran: I think we should lift the sanctions and move towards better relations with Iran and away from Saudi Arabia.

Afghanistan: Pull out already!

Draft: 100000% opposed

The US should remained engaged in the world and I think that under extreme circumstances intervention can be justified to prevent genocide but in general we should reorient our foreign policy towards one based on human rights and less in serving corporate interests.

Overall: Basically a Libertarian Socialist as my name would imply or more accurately an (LSD) Libertarian Social Democrat. I also think that my politics are in some ways close to Christopher Hitchens before 9/11.

Hate to break it to ya, but your not a Libertarian Socialist. -A Libertarian Socialist

How, because i'm not an anarchist?

It's because you don't call for the means of production to be collectivized.

Good point, I guess that i'd be on the right-wing of any radical leftist movement just because i'm not a market abolitionist even though by the standards of American politics i'm basically a Commie.

A weird mix of New Labour/Third Way/Clinton Democrat, combined with old fashioned liberalism, with a tendency for military intervention in International relations where it's clear a UN mandate can make a difference-Rwanda, Congo, Bosnia etc

Do to my recent move leftward I guess I have to change some things. I no longer support the "free" market and have moved towards a "to each according to their ability, to each according to their contribution." model i.e lower communism( unless your a Leninist then it's socialism). I have also added anarcho-individualism and anarcho-feminism to my ideology, but have continued my support of anarcho-syndicalism.And here's my new political compass.

Healthcare System: I see Obamacare as an important step to the future. However, I believe the true goal should be universal single payer healthcare. Focus on preventive care first. I support patent reform and tort reform to lower costs.Social Security: Raise the contribution cap, lower benefits for the rich possiblyTaxes: I believe in a progressive but simpler income/corporation tax, where loopholes for the rich and corporations are closed. Also, I love the idea of a Robin Hood Tax. Don't mind high sin taxes too.Campaign Finance: Strict limits on donations and reforms for more transparency need to be enacted.Banking: Pass Glass Steagall, break up big banks, don't bail out banks, support community banking.Federal Reserve: Nationalize it.Minimum Wage: Raise to $12.00 an hour and index for inflation thereafterFree Trade: Prefer fair trade over free trade, implement protective tariffs against human rights abusers.Unions: I support strong unions and stand against "right to work".Welfare Reform: Crack down on waste and fraud, end "workfare"Farm Regulation: Change the regulatory system to be fair towards family farmers, legalize hemp, legalize raw milk, loosen rules on urban farming. GMO's: Label them, but they have very beneficial potential.Environmental Regulations: Carbon tax or cap and trade are necessary, ensure that polluters are severely punishedEnergy: Pivot away from oil, coal, and gas and towards nuclear, solar, wind, and fusion powerCars: End the stupid ban on personally importing cars newer than 25 years old, stop inspecting cars before re-registration, lower regulations on carmakersEducation: Ensure that schools are well funded. Fight the race-to-the-top standardized testing mentality that currently pervades schools. Foreign Conflicts: Generally isolationist, although I do believe in drone strikes and airstrikes as a form of limited military intervention. Any intervention should be done multilaterally and constitutionally. Iran: Ease sanctions on them, work towards a nuclear deal.Cuba: End the embargo once and for all.Palestine: Recognize the Palestinian nation.Surveillance: Not much of a problem with the Patriot Act. Make sure it stays within legal bounds, but preserve the NSA for national security purposes.Foreign Aid: No problem with it, as long as we follow up to make sure it ends up in the right hands.Military Budget: We really need to cut it. Now.Gun Control: Ban assault rifles, institute universal gun and ammo background checksMarijuana: Keep it illegal, but shift away from imprisonment and more to punitive fines.Smoking: Ban smoking in public places except for smokeshops, bars, and a few designated smoking areas.Gay Marriage: Equal rights yo, this is 2015Abortion: Personally strongly opposed to abortion, but I am pro-choice. Safe, rare, and legal. Birth control needs to have widespread use. Prostitution: Completely oppose legalization.Feminism: I support gender equality, but do not consider myself a "feminist" per se.Affirmative Action: Strong supporter of race-based affirmative action. I also support gender based affirmative action in some cases. College: I believe that for public colleges, the US needs to shift to the Oregon Plan. Police Brutality: Police officers need to use body cameras. More crisis training and non lethal methods need to be emphasized. Police militarization should be scaled back.Immigration: Multiculturalism strengthens our nation. Help undocumented immigrants attain documented status and eventually citizenship.

Social Policy:Abortion: Personally Pro-Life, but let the individual woman decide.Same Sex Marriage: Let each state decided whether to legalize it or not.Drugs: Legalize marijuana now.Stem Cell Research: Support and fund it.Death Penalty: Let each state decide what to do with it.Gun control: Law-abiding, responsible citizens do not and should not need to ask anyone's permission or approval to engage in a peaceful activity. Gun ownership, by itself, harms no other person and cannot morally justify criminal penalties.Affirmative Action: Get rid of it, it is a form of reverse racism and is outdated in itself, candidates should be selected based on qualifications, not race.Prostitution: Legalize/regulate. .Euthanasia: Legalize.

Economic Issues:Minimum Wage: 79% of all economists agree that the minimum wage increases unemployment. Minimum wage laws and mandated benefits drive up the cost of employing additional workersWelfare: Liberals and conservatives both have fundamental flaws when it comes to "welfare", we are trillions of dollars in debt and can't afford to shell out the trillions of dollars in Welfare spending, last year we spent $668 billion in welfare and $3.7 trillion over the course of the last 6 years.Right-to-Work: Somewhat opposed to it, but employers should not be forced into labor unions, nor should they have enormous powers.Taxation: One flat tax rate for all, like the FAIR tax..Healthcare: Get the government out of health care, let's have competing health care companies that drive the market and benefits, Obamacare was a disaster.Social Security: Privatize it.Trade: Free Trade, 'nuff said. Education: Abolish the Department of Education, let the states and local boards decide what to do with education.Balanced Budget Amendment: YES!

Foreign Policy and National SecurityAfghanistan: Shouldn't have been there in the first place.Iraq: Never had WMD's, shouldn't have interfered.Iran: Encourage good relations.Syria: Stay out of the conflict entirely.Cuba: Normalize relations.Military Spending: Cut back on nonessentials.PATRIOT Act: Abolish it now, it is a fundamental violation of the Constitution and our Rights.NSA Spying: End spying now.Palestine: Recognize Palestine, but don't give out foreign aid.Israel: Israel is an ally, but end foreign aid, encourage them to end settlements.Immigration: Immigration Law Should Reflect Our Dynamic Labor Market, eliminate most, if not all, restrictions on immigration.Guantanamo Bay: Should be shut down.

Electoral ReformElectoral College: The Electoral College imposes a two-party system and needs to be abolished in favor of popular vote.Gerrymandering: Benefits the party in power, eliminate it.Term limits: It's called voting.Voter ID: Do not support it at all.Compulsory Voting: NoVoter Registration: If the person doesn't want to register, don't force them.Statehood: Allow D.C., and Puerto Rico decide if they want to become states.

Social Policy:Abortion: Personally Pro-Life, but let the individual woman decide.Same Sex Marriage: Let each state decided whether to legalize it or not.Drugs: Legalize marijuana now.Stem Cell Research: Support and fund it.Death Penalty: Let each state decide what to do with it.Gun control: Law-abiding, responsible citizens do not and should not need to ask anyone's permission or approval to engage in a peaceful activity. Gun ownership, by itself, harms no other person and cannot morally justify criminal penalties.Affirmative Action: Get rid of it, it is a form of reverse racism and is outdated in itself, candidates should be selected based on qualifications, not race.Prostitution: Legalize/regulate. .Euthanasia: Legalize.

Economic Issues:Minimum Wage: 79% of all economists agree that the minimum wage increases unemployment. Minimum wage laws and mandated benefits drive up the cost of employing additional workersWelfare: Liberals and conservatives both have fundamental flaws when it comes to "welfare", we are trillions of dollars in debt and can't afford to shell out the trillions of dollars in Welfare spending, last year we spent $668 billion in welfare and $3.7 trillion over the course of the last 6 years.Right-to-Work: Somewhat opposed to it, but employers should not be forced into labor unions, nor should they have enormous powers.Taxation: One flat tax rate for all, like the FAIR tax..Healthcare: Get the government out of health care, let's have competing health care companies that drive the market and benefits, Obamacare was a disaster.Social Security: Privatize it.Trade: Free Trade, 'nuff said. Education: Abolish the Department of Education, let the states and local boards decide what to do with education.Balanced Budget Amendment: YES!

Foreign Policy and National SecurityAfghanistan: Shouldn't have been there in the first place.Iraq: Never had WMD's, shouldn't have interfered.Iran: Encourage good relations.Syria: Stay out of the conflict entirely.Cuba: Normalize relations.Military Spending: Cut back on nonessentials.PATRIOT Act: Abolish it now, it is a fundamental violation of the Constitution and our Rights.NSA Spying: End spying now.Palestine: Recognize Palestine, but don't give out foreign aid.Israel: Israel is an ally, but end foreign aid, encourage them to end settlements.Immigration: Immigration Law Should Reflect Our Dynamic Labor Market, eliminate most, if not all, restrictions on immigration.Guantanamo Bay: Should be shut down.

Electoral ReformElectoral College: The Electoral College imposes a two-party system and needs to be abolished in favor of popular vote.Gerrymandering: Benefits the party in power, eliminate it.Term limits: It's called voting.Voter ID: Do not support it at all.Compulsory Voting: NoVoter Registration: If the person doesn't want to register, don't force them.Statehood: Allow D.C., and Puerto Rico decide if they want to become states.

Abortion: Personally and Morally, Pro-Life, but i believe the individual woman should decide what to do with her own body.Same Sex Marriage: Legalise SSM across the nation. Drugs: Legalise, Regulate and Tax any drug, it's is the individual's freedom to do whatever the individual wants to do even if it hurts himself.Stem Cell Research: Legalise and fund it. Death Penalty: Should be legal, but with full due-process and full evidence that the accused is guilty. Gun control: Establish full background checks, ban guns for the mentally ill, those on drugs and dangerous felons. Ban Assault Weapons, heavily regulate other guns. Apart from that, let individual's have guns for liberty, freedom and to defend themselves. Affirmative Action: Support it, though I would rather have Class-Based Affirmative Action. Prostitution: Legalise and Regulate. Euthanasia: Legalise but make sure the patient is in a correct state of mind, when he makes the decision.

Economic Issues:

Minimum Wage: Increase to $15 an hour, people deserve fair wages that is roughly kept up with inflation. The $15 minimum wage, will be kept up with inflation. Welfare: See the creation of a welfare state, our neediest citizens need welfare in order to survive. Keep welfare the way it is. Fund this by ending Corporate loopholes, more corporate taxes and a more progressive tax system. Right-to-Work: Split on it, labour unions are a great thing, but people shouldn't be forced to join them. Saying that Right-To-Work does damage a union and worker's ability and right to collectively bargain, an ability and right I fully support. Taxation: VERY progressive taxes, taxes that are going up by 1% by the increments of $10 000. Benefits every except the very rich. Increase corporate taxation and close corporate tax loopholes. Lower small business taxes and subsidise small business from taxes when they are starting off. Healthcare: Public-Option, let everyone have a choice to have universal free healthcare but don't force them in them. An extra 5% healthcare tax, with my tax plain is not really a lot. Let people join private healthcare insurance, if they want. Social Security: Expand social security, for the poor and middle class. Cut social security for those making over $200 000 an year, they don't need social security.Trade: Expand Fair Trade with nearly every country. Education: Institute CommonCore for schools that need it, do not for school that are already doing well. Increase Education funding,let parents have school voucher but also support public school by giving them more funding. Oversee Private and Public schools with a basic curriculum, that lays out simple teaching guidelines. Balanced Budget Amendment: Support

Foreign Policy and National Security

Afghanistan: Fight Taliban, with airstrikes, ground troops for humanitarian reasons, don't kill innocent civilian in the process. Iraq: Taking out Saddam Hussein was a good thing, we should've gone after that. End the War in Iraq but do start an war on ISIS. Iran: Start Relations with Iran, try to make a peace-deal between Iraq and the US. Try nearly all means before again imposing sanctions. Syria: Provide Humanitarian Fund, stay out of the Conflict. Cuba: Normalise relations, end embargo, end travel ban, try to commercialise Cuba with Capitalism.Military Spending: Cut back on nonessentials.PATRIOT Act: Abolish it, Un- Constitutional and a violation of our privacy and freedom.NSA Spying: Abolish NSA, end spying.Palestine: Recognise Palestine, start diplomatic and peace talks with them. Give them foreign aid, for humanitarian reasons. Israel: Keep them as an ally, end foreign aid with them, support them but not coddle them, to no means. Immigration: Be stricter on Illegal Immigrants, Expand legal immigaration to the US. Guantanamo Bay: End it now, despicable place.

Environment

Climate Change: Real and Man-MadeGreen Energy: Expand, provide more funds to Green Energy. Keystone XL Pipeline: Would Support, with environmental regulations and if the Oil was being kept in the US for the people, not for big corporations. In it's current idea, oppose it.

Electoral Reform

Electoral College: Abolish, in favour of the Popular Vote. Gerrymandering: Establish, independent congressional drawing group. Eliminate Gerrymandering, Term limits: Support, 2 terms for senate, 4 terms for house. Voter ID: Fundamentally OpposeCompulsory Voting: Definitely not. Voter Registration: No forced registration, make it easier for citizens to register as a voter. Statehood: Allow DC, Puerto Rico, and other habited US territories, to become states with a referendum in their territory.

Social Policy:Abortion: Pro choice in the first two trimesters, pro life after.Same Sex Marriage: Nationwide legalization.Drugs: Legalize marijuana now.Stem Cell Research: The benefits far outweigh any potential costs.Death Penalty: Nationwide ban.Gun control: Law-abiding, responsible citizens do not and should not need to ask anyone's permission or approval to engage in a peaceful activity. Gun ownership, by itself, harms no other person and cannot morally justify criminal penalties.Affirmative Action: Get rid of it, it is a form of reverse racism and is outdated in itself, candidates should be selected based on qualifications, not race. Rewrite certain parts of Title IX.Prostitution: Legalize/regulate. .Euthanasia: Legalize for those in extreme pain.

Economic Issues:Minimum Wage: A small hike to around $8.50 per hour.Welfare: Expand EITC, no to drug testing recipients and limit to a max of 5 years.Right-to-Work: Completely opposed.Taxation: Slightly lowered taxes, with a top rate of 35-37%.Healthcare: Tax credits and vouchers, expand free clinic programs.Social Security: Allow private investment.Trade: Free Trade, 'nuff said. Education: Abolish the Department of Education, let the states and local boards decide what to do with education.Balanced Budget Amendment: YES!

Foreign Policy and National SecurityAfghanistan: Finishing withdrawing troops.Iraq: See above.Iran: Pressure the new government to accept UN inspectors.Syria: Stay out of the conflict entirely.Cuba: Normalize relations if fair elections are held.Military Spending: Cut back on procurement, look to cut waste.PATRIOT Act: Abolish it now, it is a fundamental violation of the Constitution and our Rights.NSA Spying: End spying now.Palestine: Recognize Palestine, but don't give out foreign aid.Israel: Israel is an ally, but end foreign aid, encourage them to end settlements.Immigration: Increase quotas,deploy national guard and create a pathway to citizenship for children.

Electoral ReformElectoral College: The Electoral College imposes a two-party system and needs to be abolished in favor of the STV.Gerrymandering: Benefits the party in power, eliminate it.Term limits: It's called voting.Voter ID: Support in some cases, if they are easy to access.Compulsory Voting: NoVoter Registration: If the person doesn't want to register, don't force them.Statehood: Allow D.C., and Puerto Rico decide if they want to become states.

Ideology: Social Ecologist/Green Anarchist/Georgist, or something or other

Social Policy:Abortion: The right to one's own body is a fundamental human right. I support abortion up to the date of birth, with funding provided by a universal healthcare system.Marriage: The institution is a joke. Get rid of government recognition of this outdated social construct and let people sort it out on their own.Drugs: The War on Drugs is the new Jim Crow. It has put millions and millions of poor and minority Americans into prison and left many families fatherless and motherless. The results of the War on Drugs is far worse than the alternative reality where we did nothing at all to address drug addiction, leaving us with a yearly bill in the hundreds of billions if not trillions in government welfare expenditures to maintain a stigmatized underclass that cannot find decent paying jobs to live off of. I support the immediate end of the War on Drugs with no hesitation or gradualism and the replacement of the punitive clauses of it with an emphasis on free drug rehabilitation treatment for those who seek it. Those who choose a life of drugs, being fully aware of the consequences of such from years of public education and health and safety campaigning, should be allowed to do so.I take the same view of alcohol, soda, tobacco, and many other "vices" that the modern day Puritan movement want to strongly regulate to death.Stem Cell Research: This issue is so 1999, but support. Whatever helps us get more sciency and advanced with our medicine the better.Death Penalty: Obviously immoral. I don't really think there is much more that needs to be said here.Gun control: Generally not a fan of it, but I am not really a fan of the American gun culture either. The idea that one needs a gun to feel free is a very concerning one. I feel, however, that most efforts to regulate guns will fail pretty hard simply due to the number of guns on the streets and I feel very wary of giving the State (especially as it is) a monopoly on firepower. Correcting the root causes of social inequality would do a lot more to correct the problem of gun violence and ultimately the paranoid gun culture than half arsed attempts at regulating ownership would (I know I know IT WORKS IN EUROPE! doesn't necessarily mean it will work here).Affirmative Action: I would say keep it, but my position on public education would make it necessary. However, if we exclude my support of nationalization of college campuses, I believe that Affirmative Action needs to be reworked to change the focus to those of low income rather than ethnic origins. I believe this would still allow many disadvantaged non-whites to pursue college degrees and professional jobs while also allowing many often overlooked poor whites to do the same. The poor are poor, regardless of their race.Prostitution: Full bloody legalization. In the 19th century Prostitution was actually one of the best paying and safest (I know, shocking) jobs for women of the era. Then the freaking "Progressives" came in and changed all of that by stigmatizing prostitution as some sort of mad dog social ailment and thus helped lead the crusade to ban it in the vast majority of US States. Ever since then women in such positions now find themselves the pawns of violent and abuses Johns who rob them of a good amount of their earnings. There is nothing inherently wrong with making an earning via sexual intercourse, as long as it is consensual.Euthanasia: Again, a person has a right to their own body. If they choose to take their own life, that is their choice. Oh sure, I do support funding for anti-suicide programs and other measures, but if someone willingly wants to end it for good, we shouldn't have punitive laws in place that punishes them if they fail or their kin if they succeed. Rather than having a society that prefers to hang themselves from their closet hangers or cut their throat open and leaving their master kitchen a bloody mess, howse about we at least give them a relatively clean and safe medical process? Just a thought.

Economic Issues:Minimum Wage: Obviously I support raising it. However, we must be very smart with how we pursue this. In the current system we operate under a blanket raise to $15/hr would be unwise. And really, let us not ignore the overall problem of the Cost of Living that is causing us every few years to consider raising the wage. Rather, I would support a Guaranteed Income for all households matching the number of dependents reliant on that income for food, water, and shelter. If we wage a few less wars this would be very easy to afford. Other than that, in regards to wage work, I would support any efforts (even including tax credits for small businesses) to increase the minimum wage to a level to provide not just a survivable but comfortable living for most people.Welfare: See my previous post on the Guaranteed Income. This would be given to all Americans to provide basic survival (food, water, shelter) for themselves and their families. Right now programs like Medicare and Medicaid work fine, but will become redundant if we adopt a Single Payer Healthcare system."Right-to-work" Fundamentally fascistic laws passed to stifle the influence of the working man in this country. Anybody should have the right to join/form a union if they want to, regardless of what their boss(es) might think. This is not a socialistic/communistic issue, this is an issue of liberty. And when workers cannot organize in the workplace we might as well be back in the Gilded Age.Taxation: Land Use Taxation now. The ownership of land is a crime against the earth. As such we should recognize it as such with 100% taxation of it (payable by those with the means to do so). Ideally, this should replace all other forms of taxation as the most ideal way to combat real societal inequality. The taxation of income, even the "progressive" system we have in the US, does very little to nothing to combat the wealth gap and even encourages it by the economic model of Capitalism which demands the economy be run by solvent businesses. Under a socialistic system funded by revenue from the value of the land itself, we would not have this problem.Corporations: Should be illegal.Healthcare: I support Single Payer obviously. This idea that you should pay for healthcare is one of the biggest moral failings of the American experience. Policemen don't ticket you to come to your house in response to a burglary. Firemen don't print you an invoice after putting out a fire. Why, oh why, should we pay thousands of dollars just for an ambulance ride!!!!!!!!? A publicly owned and ran healthcare system might not pay their doctors hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it would save most Americans hundreds of thousands of dollars of emergency care costs as well as save them from the evil and parasitic entity known as the "Insurance Industry". Like I noted earlier, in the event that we do have Single Payer, we should dissolve Medicare and Medicaid as those programs would no longer be necessary.Social Security: I would support abolishing Social Security and replace it with an additional system to make payments out to those people who are unable to work (for a wide variety of reasons). As I am no fan of the Protestant Work Ethic, I would be much in favor of including Artists, Writers, and other liberal arts types who do not rely on a regularly occurring source of income. Ideally, wealth should be eliminated to avoid all of these convoluted program ideas.Trade: Supportive of real free trade, which is being made a mockery of with so-called "Free Trade Agreements". Real free trade recognizes the freedom of movement for labor. Really, what we need to do is tear down the borders and allow unlimited freedom of movement. This would allow the labor movement unlimited access to the worldwide market and act as a liberation for the oft abused third world.Education: We need to destroy the privilege of the Ivy League and other high cost institutions of learning. Further, we need to destroy the mentality that everyone needs a college education just to make a survivable living (the sin for which I lay at the feet of the evil college loan industry). Both of these can be done quite easily with full nationalization of education in this country. This will free millions from the cycle of debt slavery as well as loosen employer perceptions of what a college education really amounts to in many positions (which is, jack sh*t). Obviously, some subjects like Accounting, Engineering, and Medicine you need advanced education for, but why in the blue hell would you need one for welding sh*t or working on a train?Deficits, The Debt, etc. I think the current fetishization of the debt, both by Democrats and Republicans, is both ironic and idiotic. For starters, that we live in a society where both parties have scores of politicians who are vying to be in the bragging spot about "Balanced Budgets" says a lot about us. This idea that a government should be ran like a business is a dangerous one. If government is making a profit then it is robbing the people, plain and simple. Debt is and always will be necessary for the running of a state.But at the same time we cannot be welcoming of excessive debt, which in most cases is oft the result of an abusive, violent, and authoritarian state that is getting off on the misfortune of others (whether that be drug addicts or oil producing nations). I am sure that if we waged a few dozen less wars and threw a few less million people into federal penitentiary, we might be a bit closer to that budget surplus than merely raising the income tax rate five percent and then calling it a day.

Abortion: Promote abortion as a reasonable alternative to childbirthThe Drug War: Legalize any and all drugsStem Cell Research: EncourageDeath Penalty: BanGun control: Confiscate and destroy all firearmsAffirmative Action: Created by our capitalist overlords as yet another way of distracting minorities from institutionalized discrimination. In a free and equal society we wouldn't even be discussing this--minorities would have the same opportunities to begin with.Prostitution, Euthanasia, same sex marriage:

Economic Issues:

Minimum Wage: Raise to $22Welfare: Provide everyone with a basic income regardless of their working statusRight-to-Work: Dumbest thing I've ever heard ofTaxation: Increase tax rates to the 99% range, redistribute property evenlyHealthcare: A basic human right and should be treated as such--provide everyone with free access to quality healthcareSocial Security: See my stance on welfareTrade: One of many ways that the richer classes control the poorer classes, by having dominion over natural resources. Ideally our natural resources would belong to everyone, and everyone would have equal access regardless of their socioeconomic statusEducation: See my stance on healthcareBalanced Budget Amendment: lol

Foreign Policy and National Security

Afghanistan: Not our problemISIS: Funded and armed by the U.S., much like al-Qaeda. Stop sticking our nose where it doesn't belong and maybe things like ISIS wouldn't be so much of a problem.Iran: Again, if we didn't stick our nose where it didn't belong Iran wouldn't be so offended by the U.S.Syria: Who cares?Cuba: The greatest country in the worldMilitary Spending: Abolish the militaryPATRIOT Act: RepealPalestine: Support 100%Israel: Has no right to exist Immigration: As someone who wants desperately to leave the U.S., I don't really get why people want to come here, but it's whatever. Let themGuantanamo Bay: Close it up

Environment

Climate Change: Will literally kills us all unless we abolish capitalismGreen Energy: Invest in this Keystone XL Pipeline: Oppose wholeheartedly

Electoral Reform

Do away with elections. Replace the current system with a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Social Issues:Abortion: Free, legal, and on demand at any point during pregnancy with no restrictions and no questions asked. Provide free birth control, comprehensive sex education in schools, paid maternity leave, and a national day care service to reduce the need for abortion. Drugs: Legalize all of them, with 16 as the legal purchase age. Nationalize the pharmaceutical and recreational drug sectors. Provide a free drug rehabilitation program to those who need it. Marriage: Marriage is an outdated social institution that should be abolished in favor of free sexual expression, but if we must have it, it should be allowed equally. Legalize Same-sex marriage, polygamy, and incest. Capital Punishment: On principal I have no objection to ending the lives of scum like murderers and rapists, but the state cannot be trusted with the power to end its citizens lives, and the only circumstances I can see myself condoning the death penalty would be in the context of a civil war or violenct revolution. Prostitution: Legalize but ban pimping. Gun Control: The right to bear arms is a necessary human right. Nationalize the arms sector. Affirmative Action: Guarantee everyone a job Stem Cell research: Support (living in 2015)Euthanasia: The terminally ill should be allowed the dignity to end their lives on their own terms. Legalize assisted suicide.

Economic Issues:Minimum Wage: $22/hr to keep up with worker productivity, on top of a guaranteed minimum income Welfare: Institute a guaranteed minimum income, making wage labor a choice. All citizens should be guaranteed the right to high quality housing, health care, education, and anything else needed to maintain a decent standard of living. Health care: Institute the Cuban model of socialized medicine Taxation: Abolish regressive sales taxes and sin taxes. Replace an income tax with a tax on land ownership, income derived from property ownership, income derived from capital gains, inheritance, and other parasitic economic activity. Unions: Give workers full, democratic control of the work place. Until then, protect the right of workers to organize. Repeal all anti-union legislation like Taft-Hartley, no right to work, protect the right to strike, and ban scabbing. Education: Teach to each students individual talents as opposed to a rigid, one-size-fits-all curriculum. Give students more autonomy in deciding what courses to take, while increasing the amount of autonomy in each grade the student moves up in. Ban private schools and homeschooling. Trade: Repeal so-called "free trade" agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA and instead pursue a true free trade policy allowing for the unlimited movement of labor between borders. Balanced Budget Amendment: The deficit is not a major issue. Government cannot be run like a business because its job is to protect its citizens, not to run a profit, and in doing so it is essentially robbing its citizens. Privatization: Bring all industry into democratic public ownership Environment: Potecting our natural environment should be a top priority. Heavy investment in a worker controled alternative energy sector to wean us off of dangerous fossil fuels. Ban harmful practices like fracking.

Foreign Policy and National Security:Iran: End all sanctions against Iran and allow Iran to pursue a peaceful nuclear program. Iraq War: Never should have happened Afghanistan War: A mistake. Terrorism cannot be fought with military power from an imperialist power, which would just create more hate and more terrorism. Support the efforts of Middle East governments and local groups to bring those responsible for the September 11th attacks to justice. ISIS: Provide humanitarian aid to local people fighting against ISIS, but no direct military actionSyria: Provide humanitarian aid to the rebels, but no direct military actionCuba: End the trade embargo and travel ban and seek an alliance with CubaMilitary Spending: Replace the standing army with an armed working class. Government Surveillance: Should be completely illegalTorture: Prohibit the use of torture in any circumstances Israel/Palestine: Israel has no right to exist. Support a single, free, secular, democratic Palestinian state with equal rights for all its inhabitants Immigration: Open borders and amnesty for all illegal immigrants. Abolish the concept of citizenship. Guantanamo Bay: Return to Cuba. Nukes: Seek an international treaty banning nuclear weapons. Work to convert existing nuclear weapons to be used for peaceful nuclear power. Draft: There should never be a draft. If a war does not have the popular support that it needs to force citizens to serve, then that nation has no business being involved in that war. United Nations: Replace with a single, socialist worldwide government to protect the interests of the working class

Government:Right to Vote: Guaranteed for everyone starting at age 16 and not taken away after that for any reason. Abolish voter registration, Voter ID laws, and other restrictive measures and allow anyone who makes it to the polls to vote. Organization of Government: Abolish the Executive branch and Senate, in favor of a larger House of Representatives elected every 3 years via proportional representation and subjected to immediate recall. All decisions by Congress must be approved by a nationwide referendum. Allow elections for judges, but do not require reelections for judges, allowing them to serve for life unless recalled.

I consider myself pretty independent. There aren't many things that get to me on a visceral level, so I tend to look at politics more detached and academically and statistically (I teach high school AP Statistics). I lean somewhat more R than D, but I like some Libertarian and Green ideas as well. I voted for Jill Stein in the last Presidential election; though Gary Johnson was closer to some of my views, he wasn't on the ballot in MI. I just didn't want to vote for Obama or Romney. By 2014 I was in a more conservative mood and for the most part joined in the national, if temporary, move toward the GOP.

My views on specific issues (abortion, gay marriage, minimum wage, etc.) tend to be nuanced, though I try to side with the underdog. I do feel something must be said on the subject of abortion, however. We often think "pro-life" vs. "pro-choice"; however, I have heard of more than one person who has advocated that in certain cases abortion should be *mandatory*, thus taking the choice away from the mother.

I'm surprised people keep calling themselves pro-life and then in the same sentence, type that they'd let the individual make the choice. You do realize that makes you 100% pro-choice, right?

I include myself in that category. I have supported a neighborhood crisis pregnancy center because I believe they do, in fact, provide a valuable service for women and children (and that that makes me "pro-life"). At the same time I believe abortion is a very personal choice, not one that should be made by politicians.

Gay Marriage: 100% in favor of, overturn state laws banning it at the federal level as discriminatory.

War on Drugs: Legalize all drugs, abolish the DEA

Prostitution: Legalize

Stem Cell Research: Expand

Affirmative Action: For but based on class instead of race

Gun Control: kind of torn, I think that there's a strong left-wing case to be made in favor of allowing people to bear arms. I can't understand liberals wanting to give racist cops a monopoly on gun ownership in big citites. At the same time if you could implement some kind of background check to prevent mass shootings i'd be all for it. I really think that overlaps with other issues also though like mental health.

Gambling: Support legalizing but I disagree with how it's done. (see below)

Immigration: The US is a nation of immigrants and I know that my ancestors were discriminated against by the WASPs when they first came here and I feel that people are hypocritical to oppose immigration. Yes it may depress wages somewhat but they're are other ways of stimulating them again. (see under economics)

Civil Liberties: Abolish the Patriot Act, Espionage Act, end NSA spying and police militarization, ban the use of domestic drones by police departments.

Other stuff: I guess i'm more socially libertarian then Socially Liberal since i've always had a problem with progressive paternalism. I think that sin taxes are fundamentally regressive and it annoys me how things like cigarette taxes and gambling are always tied to funding programs. It just seems like a bullsh**t way to avoid taxing the rich. I also think that bars should be able to allow smoking if they're adult only venues. Also the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen.

Economics:

Pro-Union, support single payer health care, free universal college education, guaranteed minimum income as a means of offsetting outsourcing. If we had guaranteed income it would be a boon to the economy as more people could leave their sh**tty jobs and either start businesses or pursue some creative venture. It would also be stimulus for those at the bottom. I also think that giving those at the bottom money directly is less demeaning to the poor then forcing them to be dependent on busy body social workers. Also institute a stock transaction tax and reinstate glass-stegal.

Foreign Policy:

Israel/Palestine: I believe that ethnic based states are fundamentally racist and if their ever could have been a two state solution it's been ruined by the nutty settlers moving onto what should have been Palestinian land. There should be one multiethnic secular state and I say this as a partial Jew myself.

Iran: I think we should lift the sanctions and move towards better relations with Iran and away from Saudi Arabia.

Afghanistan: Pull out already!

Draft: 100000% opposed

The US should remained engaged in the world and I think that under extreme circumstances intervention can be justified to prevent genocide but in general we should reorient our foreign policy towards one based on human rights and less in serving corporate interests.

Overall: Basically a Libertarian Socialist as my name would imply or more accurately an (LSD) Libertarian Social Democrat. I also think that my politics are in some ways close to Christopher Hitchens before 9/11.

Hate to break it to ya, but your not a Libertarian Socialist. -A Libertarian Socialist

Libertarian and Socialist are not possible as Liberatarian is the most pro free market, anti governemnt party while socialist is the opposite

Gay Marriage: 100% in favor of, overturn state laws banning it at the federal level as discriminatory.

War on Drugs: Legalize all drugs, abolish the DEA

Prostitution: Legalize

Stem Cell Research: Expand

Affirmative Action: For but based on class instead of race

Gun Control: kind of torn, I think that there's a strong left-wing case to be made in favor of allowing people to bear arms. I can't understand liberals wanting to give racist cops a monopoly on gun ownership in big citites. At the same time if you could implement some kind of background check to prevent mass shootings i'd be all for it. I really think that overlaps with other issues also though like mental health.

Gambling: Support legalizing but I disagree with how it's done. (see below)

Immigration: The US is a nation of immigrants and I know that my ancestors were discriminated against by the WASPs when they first came here and I feel that people are hypocritical to oppose immigration. Yes it may depress wages somewhat but they're are other ways of stimulating them again. (see under economics)

Civil Liberties: Abolish the Patriot Act, Espionage Act, end NSA spying and police militarization, ban the use of domestic drones by police departments.

Other stuff: I guess i'm more socially libertarian then Socially Liberal since i've always had a problem with progressive paternalism. I think that sin taxes are fundamentally regressive and it annoys me how things like cigarette taxes and gambling are always tied to funding programs. It just seems like a bullsh**t way to avoid taxing the rich. I also think that bars should be able to allow smoking if they're adult only venues. Also the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen.

Economics:

Pro-Union, support single payer health care, free universal college education, guaranteed minimum income as a means of offsetting outsourcing. If we had guaranteed income it would be a boon to the economy as more people could leave their sh**tty jobs and either start businesses or pursue some creative venture. It would also be stimulus for those at the bottom. I also think that giving those at the bottom money directly is less demeaning to the poor then forcing them to be dependent on busy body social workers. Also institute a stock transaction tax and reinstate glass-stegal.

Foreign Policy:

Israel/Palestine: I believe that ethnic based states are fundamentally racist and if their ever could have been a two state solution it's been ruined by the nutty settlers moving onto what should have been Palestinian land. There should be one multiethnic secular state and I say this as a partial Jew myself.

Iran: I think we should lift the sanctions and move towards better relations with Iran and away from Saudi Arabia.

Afghanistan: Pull out already!

Draft: 100000% opposed

The US should remained engaged in the world and I think that under extreme circumstances intervention can be justified to prevent genocide but in general we should reorient our foreign policy towards one based on human rights and less in serving corporate interests.

Overall: Basically a Libertarian Socialist as my name would imply or more accurately an (LSD) Libertarian Social Democrat. I also think that my politics are in some ways close to Christopher Hitchens before 9/11.

Hate to break it to ya, but your not a Libertarian Socialist. -A Libertarian Socialist

Libertarian and Socialist are not possible as Liberatarian is the most pro free market, anti governemnt party while socialist is the opposite